Category Steam Tuesday

Some more cog and steam bodyart Back in October I wrote a short post on Steampunk Tattoos which still gets some of the best search traffic of anything on this site. So I thought that perhaps I’d try posting up a few more tattoos that caught my interest. At some point I need to get […]

Robots from the Past Automatons in Steampunk are not a rarity. In our re-imagining of the past, many of us like to take the idea a bit further and somehow extrapolate that inventors and engineers would eventually create robots working off of steam and gears. Turning the automata into walking, talking, dancing and singing robots […]

Harlem Shake goes Steampunk Actually, what the hell is the Harlem Shake anyway? Over the past week (maybe less) I’ve seen at least 7 videos featuring the Harlem Shake, follow the same exact format, and damn near everyone is sharing these around. I don’t really get the popularity of this yet but for the sake […]

The Wheel by John Roberts The Wheel from John Roberts on Vimeo. This video has been making the rounds online lately. Back in December The Wheel won the grand prize at the inaugural Shot on Red Festival. The setting and style of the film is a whimsical steampunk world while the narration brings to mind the […]

Steampunk World’s Fair May 17th – 19th, 2013 Probably one of the biggest and best Steampunk conventions around is the Steampunk World’s Fair. Though they would prefer to call themselves a festival (and have some good reasons why they are a festival not a convention). Held every year in Piscataway, NJ this is considered by […]